Frailty and the Kidney Transplant Wait List: Protocol for a Multicenter Prospective Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding how frailty affects patients listed for transplantation has been identified as a priority research need. Frailty may be associated with a high risk of death or wait-list withdrawal, but this has not been evaluated in a large multicenter cohort of Canadian wait-listed patients.

Objective

The primary objective is to evaluate whether frailty is associated with death or permanent withdrawal from the transplant wait list. Secondary objectives include assessing whether frailty is associated with hospitalization, quality of life, and the probability of being accepted to the wait list.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Setting

Seven sites with established renal transplant programs that evaluate patients for the kidney transplant wait list.

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SUBMITTER: Tennankore KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7488612 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature